Maybe I'm shooting in the wrong direction, but isn't a redirect loop just that? One website issues a redirect to another website, which in turn redirects back to the first website and you're stuck in an endless loop with no hope of reaching either website.

I once caused this on my own website using mod_rewrite to add a '/' to URLs. I mistakenly issued a re-direct with the modified URL instead of just passing through to serve up the page. Firefox got the redirect and carried on with the modified URL ending in '/'. IE got the redirect, stripped the trailing '/' and tried again, and again, and again. It was a very effective IE blocker.

But I guess my point is, I wouldn't be surprised if you came across a mis-configured (intentionally?) web server that's causing a redirect loop so this error must be expected. It may also be that LWP::UserAgent is modifying the URL in some way that keeps the redirect looping.

In reply to Re: redirection loop by ruzam
in thread redirection loop by mrguy123

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